Jimmy,
Not, I'm not confused. :-)
I just thought that if the "&" were URLencoded it wouldn't need to be
XML escaped, because as you say it would then read "%26", and so
wouldn't cause problems to the XML parser. And I thought URLencoding
should happen here. To quote a random Web source [1]:
"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),"
*[not including the quotes - ed]*, and reserved characters used for
their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."
This seems to be quite a common error: I have tripped over three or four
dbpedia URLs containing ampersands in the course of the morning.
Unfortunately they b****r up any resource which mentions them, as well
as their "home page". Thus I can't access the resource describing lions
because it contains a reference to:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/List_of_Dungeons_&_Dragons_3.5_edition_monsters
(!)
Richard
[1] http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
On 21/02/2012 13:26, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
On 21 February 2012 10:41, Richard Light<[email protected]> wrote:
I've no idea how widespread this is, but I just failed to get a response for
"Natural_history" because the RDF/XML contains this URL:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brevard_Museum_of_History_&_Natural_Science
and is therefore not well-formed. If resource URLs are to contain
ampersands, they surely need to be URLencoded? (Better still not to have
them there in the first place?)
I think you're confusing URL encoding (%26) with XML escaping (&),
but that should be XML escaped, certainly.
--
*Richard Light*
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